69 Quotes by Elizabeth Bishop

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclenched ignorant against the sky!

all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something.

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

I was made at right angles to the worldand I see it so. I can only see it so.

Time to plant tears, says the almanac.The grandmother sings to the marvelous stoveand the child draws another inscrutable house.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.